Mechanical properties of whole-body soft human tissues: a review

G Singh, A Chanda - Biomedical Materials, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The mechanical properties of soft tissues play a key role in studying human injuries and their
mitigation strategies. While such properties are indispensable for computational modelling …

Novel approaches to screening for breast cancer

RM Mann, R Hooley, RG Barr, L Moy - Radiology, 2020 - pubs.rsna.org
Screening for breast cancer reduces breast cancer–related mortality and earlier detection
facilitates less aggressive treatment. Unfortunately, current screening modalities are …

[HTML][HTML] Stretchable ultrasonic arrays for the three-dimensional mapping of the modulus of deep tissue

H Hu, Y Ma, X Gao, D Song, M Li, H Huang… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Serial assessment of the biomechanical properties of tissues can be used to aid the early
detection and management of pathophysiological conditions, to track the evolution of lesions …

[HTML][HTML] EFSUMB guidelines and recommendations on the clinical use of ultrasound elastography. Part 1: Basic principles and technology

J Bamber, D Cosgrove, CF Dietrich… - Ultraschall in der …, 2013 - thieme-connect.com
The technical part of these Guidelines and Recommendations, produced under the auspices
of EFSUMB, provides an introduction to the physical principles and technology on which all …

[HTML][HTML] EFSUMB guidelines and recommendations on the clinical use of ultrasound elastography. Part 2: Clinical applications

D Cosgrove, F Piscaglia, J Bamber… - Ultraschall in der …, 2013 - thieme-connect.com
The clinical part of these Guidelines and Recommendations produced under the auspices of
the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology EFSUMB …

Deconstruction of a metastatic tumor microenvironment reveals a common matrix response in human cancers

OMT Pearce, RM Delaine-Smith, E Maniati, S Nichols… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
We have profiled, for the first time, an evolving human metastatic microenvironment by
measuring gene expression, matrisome proteomics, cytokine and chemokine levels …

[HTML][HTML] Discrimination between normal and cancerous cells using AFM

M Lekka - Bionanoscience, 2016 - Springer
Currently, biomechanics of living cells is in the focus of interest due to noticeable capability
of such techniques like atomic force microscopy (AFM) to probe cellular properties at the …

Optical coherence elastography–OCT at work in tissue biomechanics

KV Larin, DD Sampson - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Optical coherence elastography (OCE), as the use of OCT to perform elastography has
come to be known, began in 1998, around ten years after the rest of the field of elastography …

The matrix environmental and cell mechanical properties regulate cell migration and contribute to the invasive phenotype of cancer cells

CT Mierke - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The minimal structural unit of a solid tumor is a single cell or a cellular compartment such as
the nucleus. A closer look inside the cells reveals that there are functional compartments or …

A review on methods for diagnosis of breast cancer cells and tissues

Z He, Z Chen, M Tan, S Elingarami, Y Liu, T Li… - Cell …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Breast cancer has seriously been threatening physical and mental health of women in the
world, and its morbidity and mortality also show clearly upward trend in China over time …